By Joyce Danso
Accra, Dec. 20, GNA- The Supreme Court has declared that Alpha Beta Education Centres Limited has the valid title to some parcels of land located at Dansoman-Akokorfoto area in Accra.
This was after the apex court of the land in a unanimous decision affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal (CA) in respect of the matter.
The Supreme Court held that the appeals in respect of the two cases were without merit.
“The consolidated appeal is dismissed in its entirety. Full reasons for the judgement will be filed in the Registry of this court on or before January 14, 2026,” the Supreme Court said on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
The five-member panel also awarded costs of GHC20,000 each against the defendants in the consolidated appeal.
The Supreme Court further awarded GHC50,000 costs against Nii Adotei Korle-Bu, Head of Kpakpo Barima We, substituted by Nii Adote Otintor II in favour of Alpha Beta Education Centres.
Mr John Adjepong, Business Development Manager of Alpha Beta Education Centres Limited, confirmed this to the GNA after a five-member panel of Supreme Court pronounced its judgement last Wednesday in a matter dubbed Alpha Beta Education Centre (the plaintiff) verses Nana Osei Bonsu and nine others (defendants) and Alpha Beta Education Centres Limited verses Rev. Mama Mercy and 11 others.
The panel consisted of Justices Avril Lovelace Johnson, presiding, Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu, Sir Dennis Dominic Adjei, Yaw Darko Asare and K.T. Ackah-Boafo.
Mr John Adjepong told the GNA that the decision of the SC “conclusively settles ownership of the disputed parcels and provides legal certainty for the institution’s long-term planning and development.”
Reacting to the Judgement, Reverend Sammy Adjepong, Co-Founder of Alpha Beta Education Centres Limited, expressed gratitude to God and reaffirmed the institution’s values.
“We give glory to God, the righteous Judge of all the earth. This unanimous decision brings to a close a long and testing journey that began in 2014. Throughout this period, we remained guided by integrity, patience, discipline and respect for rule of law,” Rev. Adjepong said.
In July 2024, the CA confirmed that Alpha Beta Education Centre Limited has the valid title to some parcels of the land located at Dansoman-Akokorfoto,
The CA also “ordered recovery of possession in favour of the plaintiff, of all those pieces or parcels of land in both suits which the defendants have trespassed unto.”
It further granted perpetual injunction in favour of both suits against the defendants, their successors-in title, privies, agents, workmen among others from dealing with the land and doing anything inconsistent with the Plaintiffs quiet enjoyment of the land.
The Court of Appeal order made by Justice Henry Kwofie, presiding, Justice Bright Mensah and Justice Mrs Janapare Bartels Kodwo.
The Plaintiff went before the Court of Appeal to appeal against the Judgement of the High Court dated March 5, 2021, in consolidated suits namely Reverend Mama Mercy and 10 others and Nana Bonsu and nine others.
Not satisfied with the decision of the High Court, the plaintiff filed an appeal on the following grounds.
The Plaintiff held that the High Court judge, after affirming that the plaintiff was entitled to a declaration of the title to the disputed land, erred in not granting the relief of possession.
Additionally, the trial Judge erred in holding that the defendants were in possession of the land.
Again, the trial Judge erred when he dispensed with the composite plan, which had been drawn to aid the court in arriving at a just judgement.
Also, the plaintiff held that the trial Judge erred in holding that the “Yao Duade Case” in which Judgement was given in 1963 granted possession of Akokorfoto lands to the Sempe Stool.
It was plaintiff’s case that the judgement of the lower court was against the weight of evidence.
The defendants also appealed against the judgement of the High Court on the grounds that the trial judge among others also erred when he held that a 1963 judgement covered the disputed land and yet stated the plaintiff was entitled to a declaration of title to the disputed land.
They held further that the trial judge erred by holding that the plaintiff was entitled to a declaration of the title to the disputed land.
The CA therefore consolidated the two suits and delivered its judgement.
The CA set out to ascertain among others whether or not, the defendants were trespassers and whether or not the land in dispute was acquired by fraud by the plaintiff and whether or not the plaintiff was entitled among its claims.
The Court in its judgement held that evidence led on record indicated that the “Sempe Stool was not entitled to possession and was, therefore never granted any possessory rights over the disputed land.”
It further held that the judgement of Acolatse J, “never granted possession of Akokorfoto land to the “Sempe Stool.”
The Court of Appeal therefore dismissed the defendants second, third, grounds of appeal for lack of merit.
On trespassing, the Court of Appeal said the first to fifth defendants admitted in their statement of defence that they had started constructing building on the disputed land as at the time the plaintiff instituted the present action.
According to the CA, the averments of the defendants buttress the claims that they had trespassed the land and noted that defendants wholly failed to prove fraud against the plaintiff.
“From the available evidence, the plaintiff took the grant of land, the subject matter from the rightful owners of the land, Nii Adam Kwartei Quartey Family of Gbawe.”
The Court held that there was overwhelming evidence on record that the defendants went unto the disputed land and called it a bluff of the plaintiff when it was demanded that the defendants remove themselves from the land.
“Indeed, in their respective statements of defence, they admitted boldly pleading that they would continue to develop or construct their houses thereon regardless of the ending suit.
The Court of Appeal therefore dismissed the appeal of the defendants.
GNA
Edited by George-Ramsey Benamba